According to family tradition, Jeremiah Johnson of Virginia married Jane Lawson after the Revolution and migrated in the wake of the Boones to Bryant's Station in Kentucky with two slaves. There several Of their ten children were born, including a son John on January 1, 1798. Appar ently preferring free soil, the family left its slaves behind and moved into Indiana Territory shortly after it was created in 1800. They settled a few miles north of Harrison, Ohio Indiana, just within the line. There John Johnson grew up, met Sarah Purse], daughter of Peter Purse], of Brookville, and married her about 1818. A daughter was born to them in 1819.

In 1818 the central section Of Indiana was cleared of Indian title, and the savages were allowed three years in which to move out. SO in 1821 this New Purchase was Opened for settlement. At the same time the state legislature, meeting at Corydon, had created a commission to locate a new capital closer to the geographical center of the new state. The commission's choice of the White river-fall Creek junction was approved in January, 1821.

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